Biography
Brian d'Arcy James (born June 29, 1968) is an American actor and musician. He is known primarily for his Broadway roles, including Shrek in Shrek The Musical, Nick Bottom in Something Rotten!, King George III in Hamilton, and the Baker in Into the Woods, and has received five Tony Award nominations for his work. On-screen, he is known for his recurring role as Andy Baker on the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, Officer Krupke in West Side Story, and reporter Matt Carroll in Spotlight. Description...
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Complete Filmography

Millers in Marriage
2024
as Dennis
Eve Miller, a former indie rock singer, struggles with her toxic marriage while growing attracted to a music journalist. Her sister Maggie, a bestsell...

Pain Hustlers
2023
as Dr. Lydell
After losing her job, a single mom falls into a lucrative but ultimately dangerous scheme selling prescription drugs.

She Came to Me
2023
as Trey Ruffa
Composer Steven Lauddem is plagued by a creative block which leaves him unable to finish the score for his big comeback opera. When his former therapi...

Devil's Peak
2023
as Bo
In North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains, eighteen-year-old Jacob McNeely is torn between appeasing his meth-dealing kingpin father and leaving the m...

The Cathedral
2022
as Richard Damrosch
An only child's meditative, impressionistic account of an American family's rise and fall over two decades.

Let Me Go (The Right Way)
2022
as Dr. Kemp
A psychiatrist treats a young veteran whose sense of reality is fraying.

West Side Story
2021
as Officer Krupke
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Bombshell in Concert
2020
The stars of the NBC musical drama series Smash reunite virtually for a special one-night-only streaming event featuring the never-seen sold-out live ...

Bombshell
2019
as Brian Wilson (uncredited)
Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought do...

Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies
2019
A suburban wife and mother longs to escape the monotony of her daily routine and the stress caused by her underwhelming adult children.

The Kitchen
2019
as Jimmy Brennan
The mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take ...

Dark Phoenix
2019
as President of the United States
The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in ou...

All These Small Moments
2019
as Tom Sheffield
A teenage boy's infatuation with a woman he sees on the bus further complicates his already tumultuous adolescence.

Trouble
2018
as Logan
A feuding brother and sister entangle the fate of an old friend.

First Man
2018
as Joseph A. Walker
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July ...

Song of Back and Neck
2018
as Stone
A hapless man seeking treatment for his crippling back pain discovers a very unusual talent and unexpected love.

Molly's Game
2017
as Bad Brad
Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a ...

1922
2017
as Sheriff Jones
A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017
as Robert Kunkel
The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.

Rebel in the Rye
2017
as Giroux
The life of celebrated but reclusive author J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel The Catcher in the Rye.

Sisters
2015
as Jerry
Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.

Spotlight
2015
as Matt Carroll
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking ...

Time Out of Mind
2014
as Mark
Evicted from his squat and suddenly alone on the streets, George is a man without a home. Struggling with his demons and desperately trying to connect...
Hoke
2014
as Henry Hickey
Life and misadventures of homicide detective Hoke Moseley during the 1980s.

Shrek the Musical
2013
as Shrek
Put out of his swamp solitude by a wicked tyrant's order, grumpy ogre Shrek goes on a journey – accompanied by a chatterbox donkey – to retrieve a bea...

Admission
2013
as Christopher Flynn
Straitlaced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school ...

One Singular Sensation! Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch
2012
Stars from Broadway and television join the New York Philharmonic to ring in the New Year with a joyous celebration of the music of Marvin Hamlisch. F...

Bird in a Box
2012
as Walter
A surreal short comedy about a lonely man whose first proper date in years is sabotaged by the unattainable love of his life, who proves to have as mu...

The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
2012
as Skippy
The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can come home for Christmas. Can the big Irish clan get p...

Friends with Kids
2012
as Husband in Restaurant
In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a coupl...

Game Change
2012
as Ted Frank
During the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his r...

Ghost Town
2008
as Irish Eddie
Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse,...

G
2002
as Lloyd
A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summ...

Monday Night Mayhem
2002
as Al Michaels (uncredited)
The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a ma...

The Endurance
2000
as Frank Wild (voice)
Documentary on the Shackleton Antartic expedition. A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in and the crew of his ve...
Exiled
1999
as Brinkley
An Irishman emigrates to New York during the most heated point of the tensions in Northern Ireland in 1991. However, escaping the conflict in his home...